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Finally, in ‘‘The Drum,’’ Tsvetaeva’s relationship to Derzhavin is analogous to Derzhavin’s relationship to Suvorov in ‘‘The Bullﬁnch’’; in both poems, the poet stakes out his or her poetic territory on the grave of an admired forebear. ’’ (The actual lines are ‘‘Enough of singing military songs, ﬁnch! Martial music is not pleasing today, from everywhere is heard the lyre’s languid moan’’ [Polno pet' pesniu voennu, snigir'! ) Tsvetaeva counters the insigniﬁcance of the droning ﬁnch’s/reed pipe’s song with her own unique drumbeat.

This ambiguity of the speaking voice is encoded in the poem’s verbal structure. Throughout both the catalogue of female virtues in stanzas 1 and 2 and Walking the Poetic Tightrope 15 the deﬁnition of female limitation in stanza 3, there is not a single conjugated verb; rather, the inﬁnitive forms alone are used: not to forget [ne zabyt'], to remember [pomnit'], to dream [mechtat'], to rock [kachat'], to spin [kruzhit'], to shake [triasti], not to be [ne byt'], not to sound [ne zazvenet']. The inﬁnitive in these constructions is profoundly ambiguous.